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From: tcd@crash.cts.com (Terry C. Dawson)
Subject: Re: Problem starting gs (ghostscript)
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 08 May 93 21:28:16 PDT
Message-ID: <1993May08.212816.22198@crash>
References: <1993May5.061314.13636@latcs1.lat.oz.au>
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M.C. Wong (wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au) wrote:
: Hi,
:   I tried running gs (ghostscript) from etc01 distribution but
: getting the following error :
: 
: Initializing... Zget t_string 256 >= 256
: Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in get
: Operand stack:
:     256  ..&&
:              ,,$$NNnnFFffLLllDDdd>>66<<44~~^^vvVV||\\ttTT!!     ))##
:                                                                     ++AAaaIIiiCCccKKk--%%//''MMmmEEeeOOooGGgg==55??77}}]]uuUU__wwWW""
: ** ((BBbbJJjj@@``HHhh22::0088rrRRzzZZppPPxxXX
: 
: 
:   Can anyone help or suggest what's going wrong ? Many thanks in advance
: and email replies appreciated!!
: 
: -- 
: - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au
Looks very familiar for the distribution ghostscript.  I fixed the problem by
going to gs-2.5.2 (which I needed anyway) compiled with gcc-2.3.3. 8-).
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Terry Dawson	tcd@crash.cts.com